How in the world can I sum up probably the 4 most amazing consecutive days of my life to this point? With a bunch of random paragraphs and a barrage of pictures, that's how! So here we go.
We started Thursday morning with showing up to the airport 2 hours early. This was done to avoid the rush, which we definitely did. We were through security in about 10 minutes and Chris Neu and I watched Psych for the rest of the time. The plane ride it self was pretty uneventful except for the amazing trivia game they had that you could play with everyone else on the plane. I only got through one round with the username of 'Derpy' (as in Derpy Hooves) before the game kicked me out for some reason. The only other entertainment was the television, which had no sound, and therefore I could only watch Tom and Jerry.
When we arrived the sky was mostly clear, and we could see the Space Needle from above. We played Munchkin and watched Psych for the next two hours until the second plane load showed up. By then it was raining pretty bad and a little dark outside. With our stuff stowed safely under our seats in the big tour bus and met the greatest bus driver in the world, the Almighty DAVE! I need did find out his last name, though. We got to the Hotel and dropped our stuff before heading out again to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Fun place.
Next day the sky was clear, and we visited the Space Needle. You can see the video of that below. Near that was the Science Museum and some building called the E.M.P. Museum (the Electronic Music Pop-cultere museum or something). Both were very interesting and informative about all kinds of stuff, including the history of Horror Films and the world's largest Rubic's Cube.
The next stop was the local Aquarium, which was fascinating based on the fact that the city is on the Pacific Ocean front (See pictures and such below).
It was after the aquarium that we gave our performance at the local high school as a choir, and we did pretty darn good with our renditions of "Let me Fly", "Ver Du Ron", and "I Am Not Yours". We still might get the mp3's of those.
The next day we visited Pike's Marketplace where we sadly didn't get to see the people tossing fish around, through we did sing in the street for the crowd. There was also this guy in a suit giving out hugs for a dollar each. Following that we saw the Seattle Mariners vs Chicago White Sox baseball game where the Phillip Humber (the White Sox pitcher) pitched the 21st perfect game in history. That was pretty cool though I could care less about baseball.
After that was the Harbor cruise where we rode to an island that use to house an Indian race of indigenous people. There was a lodge there where we were served to dinner and a award ceremony where we earned a Gold Award in our division (the best). Caden Larson got a special award for being AMAZING on the piano and the Madrigals took silver in their division.
Last but not least was the Museum of Flight sunday morning (see pictures again). There was a lot of history contained there and it was a lot of fun. We ended the trip the same way it started and my family was there to pick me up.
Over all it was a lot of fun. I'm getting nostalgic just writing this post and I can't wait until Madrigals next year to do something like it again. Happy days, everyone!
Pictures:
We started Thursday morning with showing up to the airport 2 hours early. This was done to avoid the rush, which we definitely did. We were through security in about 10 minutes and Chris Neu and I watched Psych for the rest of the time. The plane ride it self was pretty uneventful except for the amazing trivia game they had that you could play with everyone else on the plane. I only got through one round with the username of 'Derpy' (as in Derpy Hooves) before the game kicked me out for some reason. The only other entertainment was the television, which had no sound, and therefore I could only watch Tom and Jerry.
When we arrived the sky was mostly clear, and we could see the Space Needle from above. We played Munchkin and watched Psych for the next two hours until the second plane load showed up. By then it was raining pretty bad and a little dark outside. With our stuff stowed safely under our seats in the big tour bus and met the greatest bus driver in the world, the Almighty DAVE! I need did find out his last name, though. We got to the Hotel and dropped our stuff before heading out again to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. Fun place.
Next day the sky was clear, and we visited the Space Needle. You can see the video of that below. Near that was the Science Museum and some building called the E.M.P. Museum (the Electronic Music Pop-cultere museum or something). Both were very interesting and informative about all kinds of stuff, including the history of Horror Films and the world's largest Rubic's Cube.
The next stop was the local Aquarium, which was fascinating based on the fact that the city is on the Pacific Ocean front (See pictures and such below).
It was after the aquarium that we gave our performance at the local high school as a choir, and we did pretty darn good with our renditions of "Let me Fly", "Ver Du Ron", and "I Am Not Yours". We still might get the mp3's of those.
The next day we visited Pike's Marketplace where we sadly didn't get to see the people tossing fish around, through we did sing in the street for the crowd. There was also this guy in a suit giving out hugs for a dollar each. Following that we saw the Seattle Mariners vs Chicago White Sox baseball game where the Phillip Humber (the White Sox pitcher) pitched the 21st perfect game in history. That was pretty cool though I could care less about baseball.
After that was the Harbor cruise where we rode to an island that use to house an Indian race of indigenous people. There was a lodge there where we were served to dinner and a award ceremony where we earned a Gold Award in our division (the best). Caden Larson got a special award for being AMAZING on the piano and the Madrigals took silver in their division.
Last but not least was the Museum of Flight sunday morning (see pictures again). There was a lot of history contained there and it was a lot of fun. We ended the trip the same way it started and my family was there to pick me up.
Over all it was a lot of fun. I'm getting nostalgic just writing this post and I can't wait until Madrigals next year to do something like it again. Happy days, everyone!
Pictures:
